This Swedish meatball recipe is reminiscent of Stockholm, but I've adapted it for a more casual, healthy meal: using turkey instead of beef and pork and turning lingonberry jam into a sweet and tangy dipping sauce.

A homemade dressing with a quality olive oil is fresh and fruity and enhances veggies rather than covering them up. This classic Nicoise Salad and its lemon-thyme vinaigrette will change your mind about homemade dressing.

We stood in Prague Central Station, the 3 of us starving after a long afternoon train from Berlin. Then we saw it. Dough baked over an open fire, dressed with nuts and cinnamon -- the Czech sweet pastry trdelnik.